Meaning of violence in contemporary Latin America
By: edited by Gabriela Polit Dueñłas and Maria Helena Rueda
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780230113787
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; Political violence; Violence; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy
Description: "This volume includes contributions of scholars from various fields--the social sciences, journalism, the humanities and the arts--whose work offers insightful and innovative ways to understand the devastating and unprecedented forms of violence currently experienced in Latin America. As an interdisciplinary endeavor, it offers an array of perspectives that contribute to ongoing debates in the study of violence in the region"--

"This volume addresses a situation now perceived among the most pressing issues faced by Latin America in our times: the proliferation of increasingly complex forms of violence, a reality with multiple ramifications, marking the socio-political landscape of the region in decisive ways. With contributions by scholars from various fields (the social sciences, journalism, and the humanities), this book examines not only the manifestations and the effects of violence but also the social acts that surround it and make it meaningful. Violence appears here as a natural yet dramatic manifestation of how individuals organize themselves in contemporary Latin America"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Against Violence and Oblivion: The Case of Colombia's Disappeared; title: Mari;a Victoria Uribe * Txitzi'n for the Poxnai: Indigenous Women's Discourses on Revolutionary Combat; title: Arturo Arias * Facing Unseen Violence: Ex-combatants Painting the War in Colombia; title: Mari;a Helena Rueda * Considerations on Violence, the Global South, and an Aesthetics of Sobriety; title: Hermann Herlinghaus * Urban Violence and the Politics of Representation in Recent Brazilian Film-Marta Peixoto * Ciudad Juarez, Femicide, and the State; title: Socorro Tabuenca * Chronicles of Everyday Life in Culiacan; title: Gabriela Polit * Ricardo Wiesse's Cantutas; title: Victor Vich * The Sounds of Violence: Critical Perspectives from Contemporary Brazil; title: Samuel Araújo * (In)visible Connections and the Makings of Collective Violence; title: Javier Auyero and Matt Mahler * Fuerte Apache; title: Cristian Alarcón.